I purchased this set for my 4 1/2 year old daughter. She loves them. While she cannot put correct sentences together yet, she loves reading the words to her younger brother & moving the words around. The magnets are BIG, which is great. I also love the metal case, and plan on taking the set2nd when we visit my daughters4 older cousins, as they love to play the "teacher" to the younger kids. Great purchase!

So much fun, so easy to keep up with!Posted 12/27/2010 by donna graham

Rating:

5

We've been making silly sentences on our fridge non-stop!!...since we bought this for x-mas for our family. We had a magnetic poetry kit that we really liked before, but the words were so small, they were alway falling down, getting swept up by my broom, disappearing under my fridge, etc. These words are are big, you will NOT lose them, you WILL have a blast, though!!!

I like it that the words are readily accessible on our fridge, and if the kiddos practice reading the words, make a quick sentence, or choose to construct a whole message, I am happy. We choose to homeschool and I like to have skill affirmation/practice opportunities available in new and different ways, just as a part of our daily life. The kids don't choose to use them constantly, but I didn't expect that they would or buy them because I thought they should.

I bought the Really Big Words gift for my grandchildren, ages 2, 4 & 6. The 2 year old likes to play with them because they are magnets. The 4 and 6 year olds like making funny sentences with me and we laugh about what we have created. The six year old just started school and reads on a 2nd grade level and loves to read. This helps expand his reading ability.

I am using the product Really Big Words for Kids in my classroom. I have boys that are learning to create sentences and these magnetic words help them to practice creating sentences without having to think of the words on their own. They get to be creative without adding an extra thinking process!

My 5-year-old and 2-year-old are both just starting to read, and we're having fun with this kit. The sillier the sentence, the more they enjoy it. I bought magnetic backing for my laminator so I can add my kid's names and other custom words. I especially like the large font size -- perfect for young ones. This is a good tool for emphasizing sentence structure, increasing word recognition, having fun together, and for parents to be amazed at how smart their children are. Children really are linquistic geniuses.

Early reader words are printed in clear font on magnetic surface. The early reader can practice sight words and put together sentences on the frig. door or other magnetic surface.
The number of words is a bit overwhelming if put out all at once but allows for growth if added a few at a time. Many options for creative uses as the child matures such as rhymes, poems, humor,or creative writing prompts.

All three of my kids love it! It is something I was looking for for a long time. Most of my friends who are english teachers here in Poland want me to borrow this toy for their classes. Big help to my kids! We all love it!

This was a great find. My first grader is having some reading challenges. She was suprised to find something so BIG she can make sentences and messages with. This toy is a freah and fun way to practice. Good quality and great for tactile learners.

This product is for my grandchildren to use while visiting our house. They all (12) absolutely love it....the littlest one can work with adults and play and the older ones can play alone or with each other. The case is also an added bonus...is very cute and makes for good storage...nice and small.

I overshot the age range for my 5 year old nephew; he cannot yet read. However, he is precocious and spends more time in doors than out (not a sports guy yet.) His mother is thrilled with the gift and has plans for rainy day activities. She was more than greatful and will put it to good use before her return to work in 7 days

My 7 and 4 year old absolutely love this unique magnetic poetry set. We use our large door (steel) leading to the garage as our "canvass". They have composed songs, written poems and funny messages. Even my husband and I get in on the fun. This is a great product for developing creative writing skills. Even for beginning readers.

This is a fantastic product! I bought them to use with my kindergarten class, but I haven't taken them to school yet. My family loves putting them on the fridge and making silly poems and notes for one another. This is a hit with all ages, both adults and children.

I am using this item as a work station in my first grade classroom. I have five task cards that the students can choose from. Students can sort words into open and closed syllable words, find rhyming words, make I am and I like sentences, make word snakes, and make own story or poem. The students are able to manipulate this product because of its bigger size! Plus they love the fact that the words are magnetic!

Really Big Words was a hit with our 4 year old daughter. We immediately put all the words up on our fridge and we constantly make sentences from them. This combined with flash cards for sight words has rapidly increased her reading ability, and love for it.

Great toy! My 5 year old daughter and her three older siblings had great fun making up sentences. The words are a easy to use size. This set comes with extra endings (s, ing, ed) that help with teaching agreement in a sentence. That being said, one of the rules for making sentences is there are no rules!! Lots of fun.

It's heavy! I wish I could be there to see my niece open this. Since I didn't open the packaging, I can't comment on the quality. I do think this is a great idea for a little girl who is learning to read; and I love the idea of encouraging her to put sentences together in a fun way.

Really Big Words for Kids was suggested by my daughter's teacher and it is great! My daughter is in 1st grade and already reading, but this helps her creativity. There are times when she needs to make up stories and his really helps her brain flow. A definite "must have".

This is a great set of words for little people. My six and four year old are enjoying learning the words and putting together their own sentences. they love that they are "reading". So fun and full of learning possibilities!

These words are nice and sturdy, and large enough to see from across my classroom. I teach 2nd grade, and I will use the words to help teach complete sentences, phonics, parts of speech, etc. I even used them to welcome my new students this year by placing "I am happy because we are together" on my magnetic blackboard!

This product is great to use. It is fun to make silly sentences and have my 6 year old read them. It makes him laugh to put words together that do not belong together. The carrying case is very nice. I have gotten other magnetic word sets that do not have a case and end up all over the floor or in a plastic bag. We have also used the case to stick the words to in a pinch.

Special Education TeacherPosted 2/27/2008 by David Cedeburg
- EDUCATOR

Rating:

5

The magnetic poetry items are great for teaching language arts. The kids love the magnetic dart board. I modify the dart board to review money math. I even put the magnetic Really Big Words for Kids on the dart board to encourage story making and expounding ideas.

These are very fun for kids. They are perfect for little hands and new-readers. Though the size makes them a bit crowded on the fridge. Nice little case comes with them. The case is handy because you won't want to leave them on the fridge when not in use.

We just started playing with the set and so far my kids enjoyed reading the silly sentences we made together. The big print is perfect for young kids. One suggestion would be to have more little words (like "to", "the", "in", "on", "up" ) or word components (like "s", "ed", "d", "ing") so that we can make longer and sillier sentences. These are all in the set, but every time we made a sentence, we wished there were more of these. Also, it would be ideal for my younger kid if there were more 3-letter and 4-letter words in the set.

Really Big Words for Kids are great. We use them with our Kindergartner to enhance her reading. She loves them and even her 4 year old brother has been interested in words since we bought them. I only gave them 4 stars because I would have like to have seen more sight words in the box, but overall they are great. Nice size to use on an easel and they look like they will hold up very well.

I like the case it comes in and that the words are all magnetic. I have a large white board where I can use them, however, someone without a board may not be able to use the words as well. One negative aspect for me is that the set of words does not have any "color" words in it...such as yellow, green, purple, etc. This would've been a great asset because younger kids could learn to recognize the word describing the color they're currently learning.

My son sits next to the magnetic strip that these words are on and just rambles on reading each one. Being that he's in Kindergarten and not quite 6 he does not use them to make sentences yet, but he tries. I think these will be a great addition to our toy collection and used for many years to come!

My 6 year old son loves it. He likes being able to make up his own silly sentences with the words. It is a great compliment to what he is learning at school. It helps with beginning reading and writing skills. It promotes sight word recognition and sentence and story construction. It is a natural progression from magnetic alphabet letters. It was also suggested by my son's kindergarten teacher. I recommend Really Big Words to any family with a young reader or budding author.

The words are great and provided a solid 2 hours of story-making. I was looking for a picture of the actual word magnets in the ordering process. We have one set of magnetic words ( I cannot remember where they came from) and I was hoping to get a matching set but I could not see what the tiles actually looked like. The original set we have is color-coded by category, i.e, yellow =adverbs, red = nouns, etc.... The Really Big Words magnetic tiles are all white. It still makes for a GREAT product. We just mix them in with the colored tiles. If I was really ambitious I could color code them myself but...

Really Big Words magnetic poetry is a useful and fun product. Kids of all ages seem to enjoy it even though it was purchased for use in museum education with kids under 10 years old. I would highly reccommend this product for anyone who wants to engage kids imaginations and promote literacy.

These will be used on a huge magnetic board in the teen area of the library I work in. It would be nice to have some words appropriate for older kids, but these were the biggest ones I could find. They'll be fine.

My young grandchildren are just beginning to think about reading. They're already making sentences on the refrigerator with this toy. It will be fun to see how this contributes to their reading. Mom and Dad use it to leave messages.

These are more "user friendly' than the regular magnetic poetry pieces, simply because they're a larger size. Our primary & elementary grades have made several poems with them, and have "written" a few stories. We only recently began using the set. They seem to be well-made.

I bought this for my 6 yr. old twins to use at home. They enjoy making silly sentences. This is good practice for the skills they have learned in school. When my kids outgrow it, I will add it to my kindergarten classroom materials. Great for moms and teachers.

Lots of words to make simple sentences or longer ones. Bought for my 6 year old. We do a sentence every day on the fridge using the magnet words. It's a good interactive toy that she can do by herself or I can help her with.

I bought this for my (just) 5 year old grandson because I had words leftover from a poetry calendar and we put them on my fridge but they were too small and too numerous and pretty much overwhelmed him. But these are bigger and easier to digest. He's already gotten them on his fridge at home and putting sentences together. Good thinking guys! Way to stimulate the mind!

This was something I purchased as an end of the year gift for son's Kindergarten teacher, I had asked her to check out this website and offered a few suggestions. this was one thing she said would definitely be of use for the incoming class. It has a great storage container and will be of great use for the next group of young minds. I was tempted to buy one for my own then 5 1/2 year old. Seems will be very helpful getting kids to recognize and read more than just 3 letter words.

This is a fun activity for kids who are just learning to read to adults who like to make up silly phrases. The words are easliy legible and are also easy to manipulate and rearrange. You and your favorite kid won't tire of the endless combinations this kit offers. The lunch box-style metal case it cool, too.

I was so glad to find this! We have several sets of magnetic poetry on our fridge and with a houseful of teenagers, it gets used all the time. Our 5 yr neighbor boy who loves to hang out at our house always wants me to read the dumb sentences to him. He's not very excited about reading right now so these "really big words" were a perfect gift for him.

My 4-year-old son loves to read and as a reading recovery teacher that is so important to me! Really Big Words is actually a Christmas gift for him, so he hasn't seen it yet. I did open it, and I am very impressed. The words are large, which is important for young kids and the pieces will not get lost as easily like other sets I have seen. It is very educational. You can work on making sentences, parts of speech, or work on just being creative! This product was shipped to my front door within 2 days and the company was very friendly and helpful when I called. I will definitely be ordering from Fat Brain Toys again in the future! A Mom and reading recovery teacher in Amarillo, Texas

I'd seen the "Really Big Words" set on my niece's fridge and wanted it for my own grandchildren. Ages 8, 6 and 5 (in two families). It's a wonderful idea! Anyone, "children of all ages," can just stick a few, or several, words together. Voila! Perfect serendipity!

I used this product in a coffee shop and loved it so much I wanted to buy it for my classroom. The item itself is great! I am waiting for delivery of a new item because the storage tin was dented during delivery and the handle broken. I love the storage container. it is a big plus to the product.

For our son's six birthday, we ordered Really Big Words, First Electronics, and the Geo Puzzle. He has really enjoyed all of them. We found the word pieces for Really Big Words to be a perfect size and fun way to learn words and form sentences. I highly recommend it!

I'm very happy with this product. My daughter found it interesting and appealing and very relevant to what she's learning at school (sight words and constructing sentences). The quality of the product is very high and I also liked the booklet included, which gives suggestions as to further uses for the product as the child grows older.

The words are very nicely printed and nice and large which makes them great for young children who seem to respond well to large letters/words. I would have liked a few more 3 letter words but that is because I wanted them for my young son, they would be perfect for a slightly older child. A beginners set may have been more suited to my needs.

I received the Really Big Words very timely and just when you said I would. We are loving the word magnets. I would definitely recommend the Really Big Words and most certainly FatBrain Toys. Thanks for an enjoyable experience.

My son is just learning to read. These words are perfect for him. And who couldn't love the carry case that comes with them!! Easy clean up and storage. While I cook dinner, he builds his confidence in reading with the really big words. We find it a great way to spend time together and have fun learning. Thank you!

We are enjoying these words on the fridge. I bought a set for my daughter's home and also mine. My grandsons can work with the letters and words where ever they are. Letter recognition and phonics are already improving. We are happy witht he purchase.

My daughter who is 4 1/2 really loves making up silly sentences and having me read them to her. They have really perked her interest in reading and sounding out what the words are. They are a great traveling toy because of the magnetic case.

What I like most about this product is the size of the magnetic words. I have been looking for a something like this for awhile, but was unable to find it until I saw your ad in a parenting magazine. I put a few of the words on my refrigerator for my 5 year old twins to sound out.

My 3 and 5 year olds both love this product. It keeps them entertained in the kitchen while I am cooking dinner. I am happy that they are enjoying something that is also educational. It is helping to build their vocabulary and sentence structure.

I purchased this for my 5 year old niece, who is learning to read. A majority of the words and word groups were beyond her reading skills right now, but she is a quick study and loves word games, so we are looking forward to many hours of fun learning. I was impressed by the quality of the product and the extremely prompt delivery.

Words are printed in dark, clear black letters on a white magnetic strip. These words stick to any metal surface. Children can play alone or within group or with an adult. Sentences can be formed by simply places the magnets in position. Great alternative for children with delayed fine motor skills and experience difficulty in holding a pencil.

I have five year old twins who love to create sentences on the refrigerator. It is especially good for my son, who isn't as interested in reading books as his twin sister, but he loves to create funny sentences.

Since the words have gone up on our refrigerator our 6 year old, who is a beginning reader, has taken great pride in making poetry. Having the words on display has opened his creative word-smithing mind.

A rating of Really Big Words for KidsPosted 12/12/2012 by Mary E Sherman

Rating:

5

The first response from my 6 yr. old granddaughter was. "Wow, Grandma, I can make sentences." And that was before she even got the words out of the box! I consider that a MOST successful choice of learning "toy."

I bought this for my 5.5 year old son, who is just starting to read. He is interested and excited about it, but not quite ready for it. I see that he will likely be really into it when he is a little bit older.